Originally Posted by
tigershilone
Last Flash-Arc awareness class I had was a couple years ago and they covered clothing pretty extensively (class was a disguised sales pitch to my company to sell FR rated tools, clothes, suits, books etc etc. Must of worked because we bought a few sets of different rated suits and the building mx guys are issued FR clothing sets)
To keep the FR rating the clothing has to be specially laundered in chemical cleaning/treating, otherwise starts to lose FR resistance with each wash. If I recall correctly somewhere around 15-20 washes is where the tipping point of where the effective FR starts to degrade significantly.
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